Jonathan Miles Books in Order

Miles reconstructs the 1816 wreck of the French frigate Medusa and the desperate ordeal of people abandoned on a raft. Survivor accounts illuminate the disaster's political repercussions and its influence on Théodore Géricault's famous painting of the tragedy.

Stranded at O'Hare while traveling to his estranged daughter's wedding, translator Bennie Ford writes an angry letter demanding compensation. His complaint expands into a reckoning with wasted talent, damaged relationships, and the hope of repairing one important bond.

This biography follows Soviet agent Otto Katz through the worlds of European politics, propaganda, espionage, and Hollywood. His glamorous connections and ideological commitments reveal a life shaped by opposition to Nazism, service to Stalin, and dangerous shifting loyalties.

Miles traces Otto Katz's international career from Bohemian youth and cultural circles to Soviet espionage and propaganda. Using intelligence records, the biography examines the networks, deception, and political commitments that carried him through the upheavals of the twentieth century.

A freegan couple, a troubled linguist, and a wealthy debt collector inhabit different corners of contemporary America. Their lives converge in a novel exploring desire, consumption, waste, and the things people cling to or discard while seeking more.

After four years of paralysis, Cameron Harris unexpectedly rises from his wheelchair outside a Mississippi convenience store. Scientists, journalists, and a Vatican investigator scrutinize the apparent miracle, threatening his privacy as competing explanations turn him into a public symbol.

This cultural and political history follows St. Petersburg across three centuries, from Peter the Great's marshland capital to its revolutionary and Soviet transformations. Miles connects rulers, artists, ordinary residents, and episodes of violence with the city's extraordinary creative life.

Grieving former musician Adi accepts a solitary assignment to remove invasive goats from a remote Pacific island. As he discovers that neither the mission nor his isolation is what it seemed, conservation becomes a troubling moral challenge.